Can an SATA hard drive image be restored onto an SSD?

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Published on 2009-05-12T10:00:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 16:43 UTC
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I'm currently using an SATA hard drive on my primary dev machine, but planning to upgrade to an SSD at some point soon. I use TrueImage on a regular basis to make backups, and to upgrade my harddrive without reinstalling everything.

Will I be able to restore and boot onto an SSD? Will there be a performance hit or other issues to watch out for?

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